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About Yvonne Egger

Yvonne Egger – was born and spent her childhood in Villa Maria, Lawrence County, PA, USA. As a teen she moved to Gettysburg with her family and in 1996 she entered Gettysburg College and joined environmental studies. After College the young lady looked for a brighter life and found it in the disguise of her husband Rick, an easy-going person and a professional poker player. Today Yvonne can hardly imagine her life without a game of poker and a visit to a casino during her holidays.

Tricky Christmas Promotion

Online bingo site 123BingoOnline.com is already running its Christmas promotion. It is a two-hour tree race promotion that begins every day at 8 pm New York time.

Promotion plsyers pick up their teams themselves (Little Elves, Good Shepherds, Snow Fairies and Santa’s Reindeers. Whenever the team bingos, the band moves the number (the number they have bingoed) of squares with the goal to reach the Christmas Tree Star at number 25. The game is over when one of the team reaches the star.

However, the game has some tricky surprises. The squires the teams will step on might elevate the players up or bring them down the Christmas tree.
The winner will get a huge prize, while there is something for the runner-up team as well.

Weekend Tournament from Online Vegas Casino

Online Vegas Casino began a holiday weekend tournament called “See You in December Weekend Madness Tournament” in which all players including those from the UK will be able to take part.

To enter the competition, players have to deposit $13.99. Then players are given $325 as a starting balance. To qualify for any winnings, players should wager at least 20 times. If $325 are not enough to wager, players can buy back in for $13.99. As a result they get another $325 but will have to wager 20 times more.

Players who want to win a pot must play The Reel Deal – one of the best slot machines for bonus features offered online. 300 top players will get a payout. The first place winner will earn $21K, while those in the 300th place will get $20.

If you think that the $13.99 fee is a little high for you, you can surf the online casino lobby for other tournaments.

Suspended Deposits, Cut Bingo Pots

Interactive planet is reported to have stopped taking deposits for the sites on its network due to payment processing issues. The affected sites are BlindDateBingo.uk, BingoBoat.com, BulldogBingo.co.uk, ChurchillBingo.co.uk, ComedyBingo.com, EmeraldBingo.com, ExoticBingo.com, FunBingo.com, HappyDaysBingo.com RainbowBingo.com, SkippyBingo.com, StarlightBingo.com, SunStripBingo.com and YouGotBingo.com.

The spokesperson for Interactive Playnet claims that the whole situation is totally beyond their control. Taking into account the size of funds, the company realizes that it would be totally wrong to continue their operation without firm guarantee of payment. However, the network has not been shut down.

Vegas Partner Lounge Announces of a donation it plans to make

The group ahs already made several charity contributions to a number of funds and 2009 will not be the exception. They plan to gather funds this year to donation purposes. Managers promise 25% of all bets to be saved for the special inner fund the amount from which will be transferred as a donation to the corresponding facilities. The destination has not been defined yet but the exact organization which will receive the donation funds will be announced on December 1st.

It was stated that three most popular games were agreed to be share 25% of their revenue for aids purposes. The games are – Tomb Raider: Secret of the Sword, Thunderstruck and Kung Fu Monkey. While playing the visitors automatically make donation.

Online Casino software developers claim to be loosing part of their revenue in third quarter

Several biggest Software developers for online casino houses are said to be experiencing bad times with few investors to support them as the year is coming to an end. They officially stated that inevitable decline in profits this quarter will cause damage to their inner structure and though the situation is not all that bad the profit is much less than they had in November last year.

Party Gaming was the first to announce the sad news about their budget. The second participant of the looser race might appear to be Cryptologic which created the famous Marvel Collection of slots.

Despite the fact that Cryptologic faces hard times they are not giving up and declare that every other company faces bad times but in the future they plan production growth and hope for the beneficial cooperation with a pair of popular online gambling houses.

Twitter Offers a New Tool

The Twitter social networking site has recently launched into the internet bingo sector with a unique version of the popular game where Twitter has used words rather than traditional numbers.

Hugely popular Twitter is now offering the TwitterIngo bingo game that is likely to become very competitive. This new bingo themed software application will not dabble in the arena of cash gambling, but will award virtual I Won TwitterIngo badges that can be used within the social networking world.

A Level Playing Field for Internet Gambling Market?

The UK gambling Act of 2005 has been in place for several years already. It has created a gambling market allowing companies freedom and access to the market, as well as outlined regulations to control the internet gambling industry.

However, with the Gambling Act in action, they’ve got some complaints coming from the UK online casino gambling groups. In their opinion, the Act gives foreign registered companies unfair advantages over the UK Companies (the UK White list and the taxation of the online gambling industry are the major concerns). In view of the numerous complaints, the UK’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport is going to conduct a study to review the effectiveness of the Gambling Act. And as soon as the study is completed (it is supposed to be conducted by the beginning of 2010), the Parliament will consider the results.

Right Partnership at the Right Time

Europe has never been so close to the equalization of the online casino gambling industry throughout Europe as it is today. After a number of negotiations and threats to the companies who operated gaming monopolies and closed gaming markets, some companies started altering their restrictive gambling laws to allow licensed foreign competition.

Having partnered with Codere to offer sports betting to the Spanish market, Will Hill was rumored to be dissolving the partnership with Victoria Apuestas. Lots of experts thought that it would be the end for Apuestos, however, the company is reported to have partnered with Group Rubio. The partnership is believed to make the company’s expansion in Spanish retail market easier.

Pushing Hard for Legalization of Internet Gambling in Canada

Internet gambling in Canada is illegal, however the legislation is not enforced throughout the country, and small areas such as Nova Scotia are looking for the ways to legalize forms of internet gambling. And the chances to legalize internet gambling are pretty high.

One of the reasons for the legalization is the way to bring more revenue to the country’s economy.

At the moment there is no evidence that online casino poker is being well-received by the government, but some organizations are going to press the issue unless the positive results come.

888 Hopes to Build a Successful New Division of the Company

This year lots of gambling companies, including 888 Holdings, are planning to expand their white labeling operations.

The start of 2009 seems to be rather busy for the company. A new licensing deal to open a white lable casino with the racing industry newspaper has been recently announced. The company is said to be given Dragonfish brand that is to operate under the cloak of the 888 Holdings brand, but it is believed to identify its own brand in the online gambling market as well. At the moment Dragonfish is offering a complete brand of business-to-business transactions.